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5 Years After Live 8: Online Live Events Exploding

By admin | Published: July 14, 2010

Five years ago, AOL’s webcast of the Live 8 concerts marked a watershed moment for the live streaming of concert footage online. More than 5 million people tuned in via the Internet to watch footage of the event, compared to the 2.2 million that watched it on TV. Since then, the webcasting environment has obviously evolved. Billboard takes a look at three key developments since then that define the market today [...]

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The Death of Pandora?

By admin | Published: June 3, 2010

With AT&T announcing limited wireless data plans, the unavailability of an unlimited plan unless you are a legacy customer, what does this mean for services that depend on streaming via the cloud, like Pandora?

Pandora may be making money, but once its users find out they’ve got to pay to listen to that music, will they?

I’d say this is a bonus for satellite radio, but it appears Sirius XM has shot itself in the foot. Its programming is barely different from that broadcast for free, its only advantage is a lack of commercials on music channels. Whereas Pandora is something completely different, modern. I prefer Sirius XM to Pandora, but perception is everything in today’s society, and the perception of Sirius XM is awful [...]

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New Details: Digital Music Startup Rdio Looks Promising

By admin | Published: June 3, 2010

Still no Spotify and still no Apple. But the cloud music market now has yet another entrant in the form of Rdio, a slick social music subscription service that is sure to make waves in the ever-growing competitive landscape. Rdio is the latest company from Kazaa and Skype founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom.

The basics: on-demand and unlimited access to a catalog of five million songs — with all the major labels onboard — that also includes an a la carte option. A $5 per month Web-only tier lets users access all the streaming features via their browser. And for $10 a month, users can download a desktop application (required if they buy a la carte) and access to all the same features, along with caching from a BlackBerry and iPhone app (an Android version in the works). There is no free paid tier [...]

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10 Best Practices of Online Music Promotion

By admin | Published: May 27, 2010

Get your music streaming : If you want people to get into your music, they need to be able to hear it. Get your entire catalogue up at Last.fm, load those songs on MySpace, make sure iMeem and iLike have your tunes, find out what services people are using in the regions you want to be heard and make sure those people have easy free access to your catalog. No one’s going to fall in love with thirty second tidbits, and if you’ve got a great song, people will want to know if the rest of your stuff is as good. Let them listen.

Use your own domain : Seems like a wee bit of a no-brainer, but I am always amazed how many bands use MySpace as their primary website. You don’t own MySpace. Why let MySpace own you [...]

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